an image of the new books display, with many linguistics books on display including: Language and Social Issues, Semantic Research, Speech Act Therapy, Speech Technology, and more
Lots of new linguistics books on display, ready for Trinity term! 🗣️📚
Poster with cream text on a blue background. Tulips scatter the bottom of the page. The text reads, 'Vacation Loans. The spring vacation begins on Sunday 15th March. Loans issued or renewed from Monday 9th March will be due back on Tuesday 28th April. Happy reading!
Heads up! It's nearly Trinity, which means it's time to polish off your last chapters before the bustle of term! Vac loans are due back on Tuesday 28th April.
If you'd like to keep them, don't worry; as long as no one has requested them, they'll continue to renew until they hit 112 days. 🌷🪻
📢 Kafka events this term!
⏰ 8 May, 5.30pm - Kafka’s Dreams: A Fragile Legacy (Isolde Schiffermüller)
📍 Taylorian, Oxford or online
⏰4 June, 4pm - The Silent Songs of Josefine (Can Bilir) 🎼
📍 Holywell Music Room, Oxford
Book your free place now: tinyurl.com/497z58aj
#franzkafka
Book cover for Faoi scáíl gheal na hIndia
Cover of Dizionario dei Promessi sposi
Faoi scáíl gheal na hIndia
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Dizionario dei Promessi sposi
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Book cover for Anthologie des troubadours de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Book cover of Maneggiare con cura
Book cover of An cláirseoir
Anthologie des troubadours de la Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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Maneggiare con cura
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An cláirseoir : úrscéal staire faoi theacht na Normannach go hÉirinn
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Book cover of La lexicologie à l'épreuve de la créolité
Book cover for На пути к "Горю от ума"
Book cover of Figurer La Nature
La lexicologie à l'épreuve de la créolité : le cas de Texaco de Patrick Chamoiseau
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На пути к "Горю от ума"
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Figurer la nature : les métamorphoses de l'allégorie (XIIIe-XVIIe siècles)
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Book cover for plus qu'hier, moins que demain: de l'invisibilisation à l'affirmation
book cover of l'ultimo veliero
Read on for a 🧵of all the new books currently on display:
Rosemonde Gérard, plus qu'hier, moins que demain: de l'invisibilisation à l'affirmation solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...
L'ultimo veliero, solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/44...
a photo showing a stack of new books
a photo of the new books display, showing new research collection books in display stands on shelves
New term, new books! Our Research Collection new books display has been updated 🥳
Head to the Enquiries desk to have a browse 📖
an image of the Main Reading Room, a room with wooden inlayed walls, a fireplace with marble busts, a large oil portrait, and a chandelier.
A sunny welcome back to all our students for Trinity term! 🌞 It's lovely to see you all working hard already.
Don't forget to take breaks and hydrate - our Common Room has a water fountain 🚰 and spots for you to sit and comfortably rest
There are still a few days left to see the Poiesis exhibition in the Voltaire Room.
The room is accessible via stairs at the back of the Main Reading Room and by stairs from the basement.
A beige poster with an image of fair skinned hand in the centre, palm up. The photo has black sketch marks drawn around it. In the lower left of the poster is the exhibition title "Poiesis" in large black font. Brown text reads "11-18 April 2026" in the top right corner and "Taylor Institution Library, Oxford University" "Mon-Fri 9am-7pm - Sat 10am-6pm Access to Taylor Institution Library Required"
This week at the Taylor we're hosting an intimate art exhibition in the Voltaire Room.
London-based artist Ana Palma will be exhibiting pieces from the hidden side of her creative process- sketches, props and other fragments from her art in its embryonic form.
Open until 6pm this Saturday.
a photo from the Enquiry Room of the Taylorian overlooking St Giles. There are two levels of scaffolding visible, with an orange ladder going between them.
A photo of one of the windows in the Main Reading Room overlooking St Giles. two levels of scaffolding are visible. A bookshelf filled with leather-bound books dominates the right side of the frame.
🛠️Scaffolding update🛠️
The scaffolding has now passed the Main Reading Room! Noise disruption is expected to be ongoing as scaffolding is constructed on all 3 sides of this part of the building.
Staff can suggest quieter areas to work and transfer confined books to other libraries on request!
This photograph shows six of the Taylorian's books, which are covered in eleven small, fluffy plastic Easter chicks. There are five books stacked in a pile in the background, with their spines facing the camera, and one laying open in the foreground. Four chicks sit on top of the stack of books, and three sit on the third book in the stack. Four chicks sit on the open book. The chicks are yellow, blue, green and pink.
🐣 Happy Easter Everyone! 🌷
Just a reminder that after closing at 7pm tonight, we won't re-open until 9am on Tuesday 7th April.
We hope you have a lovely, restorative break, and we look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!
Need any books from the Bodleian Offsite Storage facility before Easter? 📚
Make sure to order them today, so that they arrive in our delivery tomorrow!
Books ordered after this will be delivered on Tuesday 7th April.
A reminder that we are closed over the Easter period! 🐇🍫
We will be closed from Friday 3rd to Monday 6th April (inclusive)! 📆
Please come and collect any books you need over the Easter weekend before we close at 7pm tomorrow.
We will be happy to accept readers escaping the Taylor at this noisy time 🔊
Please do let us know if you have any queries or concerns about these works, including if you have any questions about accessibility.
We are here to help!
If you would prefer to use another library during these works:
📚 Alternative study spaces are available nearby at the Art Library and Nizami Ganjavi Library, a 3-4 minute walk away
📚 We are happy to transfer your Main Self Collect items to another library- please just ask at the Enquiry Desk
🚧 Roof Repairs 🚧
The scaffolding construction for our roof maintenance work begins today!
Please be aware that there may be some noise disturbance, and we apologise in advance for this!
We have earplugs available at the Issue Desk if you would like to use some 👂
🐰Easter Closure🐣💐
We will close at 7pm, Thursday 2nd April and reopen 9am, Tuesday 7th April.
The final delivery from Bodleian Offsite Storage will be the afternoon of Thursday 2nd.
We hope you have a good Easter weekend! 🌷
We hope this makes you feel confident to order any special collections items you need!
If you have any questions, we're always happy to go through things with you.
📚
A fragile special collections item with a loose page, with a yellow slip next to it. The slip reads 'to be consulted at the invigilated desk'
An image of the invigilated desk. It is a wooden desk with a leather inlaid chair. There are book rests on the table, and a special collections item with a loose page and an invigilated desk slip. There is a posted encouraging the use of book rests and book snakes.
If the item is particularly fragile, it will have a yellow slip in it.
This means you need to take special care when using the item, and look at it at our invigilated desk.
A special collections book with a marbled cover. It has a green 'confined to the library' special collections slip in it.
Once you have sent the request, it will be delivered to the location you have selected (usually within 24 hours!). You will receive an email notification once it has arrived ✉️
At the Taylorian, we keep these requests in a secure location. Head to the second-floor Enquiries Desk to collect them. 📖
If you know an item is not special collections, please do not request it to be delivered to the Special Collections Staffed Collect!
All non-special collections use in library only items should be requested to the Main Self-Collect instead ✅
A screenshot of SOLO showing the request options for an item. There is a dropdown box saying 'loan policies'. Underneath, a heading reading 'Delivery/Pickup Location' has a padlock symbol above it, and reads 'Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect'. There is a green 'Send Request' button.
Sometimes you can request non-Taylorian special collections items to our Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect location.
If this is possible, it will be an option in the dropdown 'Delivery/Pickup Location' box.
A screenshot of SOLO showing the request options for an item. There is a dropdown box saying 'loan policies'. Underneath, a heading reading 'Delivery/Pickup Location' has a padlock symbol above it, and reads 'Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect'. There is a green 'Send Request' button.
Some items can only be delivered to the special collections desk associated with the institution that owns the item.
For example, this item (a fascinating Artists' Book showing various stories about a shrimp) can only be requested to the Taylorian, so the location has a padlock symbol🔒
Screenshot of a SOLO search, showing an offsite special collections item information under the 'locations' heading
A screenshot of SOLO. Heading 'location items', subheading 'Taylor Institution Library'. Information reads: Item in place, Use in Library Only, Offsite Storage - Special Collections - must request delivery. There is a green 'request options' button.
On SOLO, click on the Taylor Institution Library item under 'locations'.
If it's an offsite special collections item, it will say 'Offsite Storage - Special Collections, must request delivery'. Click on the item, then the green 'Request Options' button. ❇️
Special collections items that are stored offsite can only be requested to a secure special collections desk location.
For the Taylorian we have the 'Taylor Library Special Collections Staffed Collect' location. But how do you order an item? 🤔
For this week's #TopTipThursTAY, let's talk about ordering Taylorian special collections items from offsite!
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